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      Chinese-language opera blends East and West

      2013-06-21 16:50 Xinhua Web Editor: Mo Hong'e
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      With a touch of modern art techniques and the unmistakable nasal-style vocals of the classic Chinese opera, a celebrated Canadian director blends the best of the East and the West to tell a familiar ancient Chinese tale named Feng Yi Ting.

      Feng Yi Ting is the historic account of Diao Chan, a legendarily beautiful woman who was the central figure in a dangerous rivalry in the Han dynasty circa A.D. 220. The story of may have been told hundreds of times, but it's the first time Chinese opera enthusiasts in Toronto can experience it from the perspective of foreigners.

      Director Atom Egoyan's interpretation of the epic story of Diao Chan makes its Canadian premiere on Thursday. The story features a 45-minute performance that combines Beijing and Sichuan opera and offers a new twist as well.

      "For the people who don't know Chinese opera, they're going to hear a vocal tradition that they've never heard, and they're going to be exposed to something that is new," Egoyan said, "For the person who knows Chinese opera, they'll be excited by the fact that they're seeing it extended into a new place."

      Adapting celebrated Chinese composer Guo Wenjing's 2004 opera, Egoyan explores the story of Diao Chan as she uses her seductive wiles to turn a brave soldier Lu Bu against a ruthless warlord.

      Being his first foray into this particular art form, Egoyan said Guo's score, which fuses Chinese and Western classical styles with the use of four Chinese instruments -- pipa (a four-stringed musical instrument), dizi (a transverse flute), erhu (a two-stringed bowed musical instrument) and sheng (a reed pipe wind instrument) -- together with a Western chamber group, was a big inspiration.

      "He writes cinematically. He's writing like film in a way," Egoyan said, "So, the moment you hear the music, you begin to think of these images of the warriors, or these images of these banquets. It's a question of how to create that theatrically."

      Using cinematic techniques, Egoyan also adds a Western touch to the story. He said that with Sichuan opera, there's often a distinct use of ghost symbols and face changing.

      Because of that, Egoyan said, he tried to portray things in his own way, with the use of technology he's familiar with. Egoyan attempts to recreate those characteristics with projections.

      "It's a form of that, the way the figures grow and they shrink but it's not used in the classical idea," he said.

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